Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire & Steel are reassigned – to download

Audio dramas based on the classic sci-fi/fantasy series Sapphire & Steel are now available again from Big Finish Productions.  “All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and … >

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Doctor Who 2024 series: new cast announcements

Three new 2024 Doctor Who cast members were announced in Doctor Who Magazine 602. The most notable is Welsh actress Dame Siân Phillips, who among her many stage, television and film roles, is particularly known for her award-winning performance as Livia in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius. She is no stranger to Doctor … >

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Millie Gibson is interviewed in upcoming Doctor Who Magazine

In Doctor Who Magazine 602, Millie Gibson gives her her most in-depth on-set interview yet about playing companion Ruby Sunday. Also in DWM: • A long-lost interview that First Doctor William Hartnell gave to the Scottish press – including some forthright opinions • Davina McCall shares her love of Doctor Who and reflects on her … >

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The TARDIS

TARDIS memoirs book coming this summer

This summer, BBC Books will publish the first memoir from the TARDIS. Packed with stories from across time and space, and featuring exclusive photography, experience the Whoniverse through the eyes of the famous time and space machine with I, TARDIS. The Doctor has a unique bond with their TARDIS. They’ve always loved the ‘old girl’ … >

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The Quin Dilemma – Big Finish celebrate 40 Years of the Sixth Doctor (updated)

Multiple Sixth Doctors will converge to mark Ol’ Sixie’s forty years of TARDIS travel.  Updated 19/03/24: Trailer released for The Quin Dilemma. Ahead of its release on Friday, 22nd March, there’s a trailer for the celebratory Sixth Doctor tale. The Quin Dilemma sees four iterations of the bombastic Sixth Doctor drawn together to combat a … >

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Costume designer to share experience dressing the Doctor, Toymaker and Goblins in Doctor Who Magazine

Costume designer Pam Downe will discuss dressing Ncuti Gatwa’s stylish new Doctor and how she created looks for the Toymaker and the Goblin army in Doctor Who Magazine 601. Also in DWM 601: • Script to Screen: An in-depth look at how the Goblin army developed, from the original concept to the finished product – … >

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All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small – two more series commissioned

Further veterinary adventures await in Darrowby as the hit drama scores a double recommission. ViacomCBS have announced that the bucolic delights of All Creatures Great and Small will return for two more series. The show, a modern take on the works of James Herriot’s Yorkshire veterinary stories, is produced by Playground for Channel 5, as … >

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Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor to meet Bernice Summerfield (updated)

Big Finish’s first lady Bernice Summerfield will encounter the Ninth Doctor for Buried Threats.  Updated 16/02/24: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Buried Threats is released. Christopher Eccleston is back another box set of Ninth Doctor audio adventures, released on the actor’s 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, producers Big Finish have dropped another … >

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Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. seated and holding a cricket bat

Doctor Who: Goth Opera – Big Finish to adapt a 5th Doctor vampire novel

From acclaimed writer Paul Cornell, Goth Opera sees The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa battling bloodsuckers in 1990’s Manchester.  After a long gap, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish are back in the novel adaptations business. Between 2012 and 2016, the company dramatized various Doctor Who books, many by authors subsequently wrote for the Doctor … >

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